Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

In 1907, Holst also became director of music at Morley College.

Holst also used Alan Leo's book What is a Horoscope?

Contrary to what is also sometimes said, Holst was not a pacifist but wanted to enlist as his friend Vaughan Williams did, but he was rejected as unfit: he suffered neuritis in his right arm — something that caused him to seek help from several amanuenses in scoring The Planets.

* Two pianos ( duo ) – Holst also created a version for two pianos.

As a hymn tune it has the title Thaxted, after the town in Essex where Holst lived for many years, and it has also been used for other hymns, such as " O God beyond all praising ".

He was also introduced to Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Vaughan Williams obtained for him a teaching post ( 1930 – 1933 ) at the Royal Academy of Music.

Several other mixed martial artists also have a Shotokan background or utilize Shotokan ( e. g., Vitor Belfort, Antonio Carvalho, John Makdessi, Mark Holst, Assuerio Silva ).

A 2005 proposal by Holst, also reiterating a proposal of Swadesh from 1962, suggests that the Wakashan languages ( map on right ) spoken in British Columbia around and on Vancouver Island, are part of the same linguistic family as the Eskimo-Aleut languages.

* Holst, named after the composer Gustav Holst, who was music master at the school for sixteen years, and after whom the school's main hall is also named.

At the request of the publisher Curwen, Holst made a version as a unison song with orchestra ( Curwen also published Sir Hubert Parry's unison song with orchestra, Jerusalem ).

Holst also taught at the Royal College of Music and advised Rubbra to apply for an open scholarship there.

He also founded a committee, together with Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden and Dutch poet Henriette Roland Holst, which aimed at collecting signatures for the sake of inducing especially Russia's then allies France and Great Britain to exert pressure on Russia for alleviating the fate of the prisoners.

Hauge has also been in question in relation to the strange circumstances regarding the death of the Milorg member Kai Holst in Stockholm just after the war.

According to one of Holst's friends, the same apartment building where he was found dead also housed a MI6 apartment, implying that Holst was trying to reach one of his contacts.

At one student concert in 1896, Hart played the cymbals, Vaughan Williams the triangle, Holst the trombone, and Ireland also played.

During this period he also worked at Aldeburgh with Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst.

* Filosofihistorie ( History of Philosophy ), Bergen / Oslo, 1980, from 1987 together with Nils Gilje ; 2007 also with Anne Granberg, Cathrine Holst, and Rasmus Slaattelid.

He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of him in 1938.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

Interested as ever in new media, Holst wrote a score for the Associated Sound Film Industries picture ' The Bells ' in which Holst believed he appeared as an extra in a crowd scene.

The composer's name was given as ' Gustav von Holst ' — by the time he wrote " Mercury " in 1916 he had dropped the ' von ', for he signed the score of that movement separately as ' Gustav Holst '.

It is perhaps instructive to realise Holst attended an early performance of Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra in 1914 ( the year he wrote " Mars ", " Venus " and " Jupiter ") and owned a score of it.

A more prosaic explanation may simply be that Holst wrote the movements in the order they stand, with one exception, and that the only structural change was to place " Mercury " third.

Composers such as Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Dale, York Bowen and William Walton wrote pieces for him.

To this day the piece is considered the classic work of symphonic band, and beginning with Holst a variety of British, American, Canadian and Australian composers wrote for the medium, including notably Percy Grainger, James Swearingen and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams ( whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral ), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood ; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers ; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire.

Stylistically his music was significantly different from the mainstream English school of the middle 20th century ; instead of following in the lyrical, folk-song influenced tradition of Holst, Vaughan Williams and others, he wrote music which was chromatic, contrapuntal, and acerbic — more akin to Schoenberg, Bartók, and Hindemith than to any of his English contemporaries.

In his student days at the Royal College of Music, he wrote verse, some of which was set to music by Gustav Holst ( the unpublished operas The Revoke ( 1895 ) and The Idea ( 1898 ); partsong Light leaves whisper ( 1896 ), and children's chorus Clouds o ' er the summer sky ( 1898 )).

Holst and wife Isobel bought a cottage in Thaxted, Essex and, surrounded by medieval buildings and ample rambling opportunities, he started work on the suite that became his best known work, the orchestral suite The Planets.

32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916.

The orchestral premiere of The Planets suite, conducted at Holst's request by Adrian Boult, was held at short notice on 29 September 1918, during the last weeks of World War I, in the Queen's Hall with the financial support of Holst's friend and fellow composer H. Balfour Gardiner It was hastily rehearsed ; the musicians of the Queen's Hall Orchestra first saw the complicated music only two hours before the performance, and the choir for " Neptune " was recruited from pupils from St Paul's Girls ' School ( where Holst taught ).

Gustav Holst employed the instrument in his 1918 orchestral work The Planets, particularly in the final movement, " Neptune, the Mystic ".

Other composers who have used the organ prominently in orchestral music include Gustav Holst, Richard Strauss, Ottorino Respighi, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In 1942, MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ( TSO ) in a recording of the orchestral suite The Planets, by Gustav Holst, recorded on 78 RPM < span class =" plainlinks "> phonograph records, for RCA Victor.

* The Planets, a suite of orchestral music by Gustav Holst

In the early 20th century, many orchestral scores incorporated wordless choruses ( especially female choruses ) for coloristic effects, and such choruses may be found in works by Debussy, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Holst, and in many film scores.

Shortly after his return after the war ’ s end, Holst composed Ode to Death, based upon a poem by Walt Whitman.

* Eduard Holst ( 1843 – 1899 ), Danish actor, dancer, playwright and composer